Talga Resources Ltd has announced that wet commissioning of its Phase 2 pilot scale test facility in Germany has commenced. Phase 2 is an expansion of and improvement on Talga’s Phase 1 equipment and involves processing shaped raw graphite ore from Talga’s Swedish deposits in slabs up to 50kg in weight each (up from 10kg previously). Additional modified cells have been installed to increase total capacity of the facility to 365kg ore feed at a time. The production process begins by ‘unzipping’ layers of graphite at an atomic level from Talga’s raw ore slabs in custom designed electrochemical exfoliation cells, followed by proprietary recovery and concentration stages. At full commercial scale, the process aims to deliver industrial volumes of high quality product, at competitive prices.
The Phase 2 expansion is an important operational milestone as Talga continues to scale up and optimise its processing technology, enabling Talga to provide higher volume and tailored sample materials for specific industry based testing. Talga uses the industry feedback to identify the products and optimal processing parameters required in the scale up of its pilot test-work facility in Germany. After successful process scale up, Talga envisages constructing its full-scale commercial production facility near its Swedish deposit (“Vittangi Project”).
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